Thursday, November 26, 2009

North Korean beautiful woman soldier

A North Korean soldier guards an army installation on the banks of the Yalu River at the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong, October 10, 2006

The remains of the day: Rwandan genocide in 1994

A Rwandan worker cleans a mass grave outside the church in Nyanza, Rwanda April 4, 2004. An estimated 800,000 people were killed in 1994 in 100 days of genocide.

The Kenyan with a arrow in his head

A young man with an arrow in his head, arrives at hospital following ethnic clashes in the town of Nakuru in the Rift Valley area January 26, 2008.

The face of hatred and fanaticism

An angry Jewish settler boy looks out from inside a synagogue as Israeli policemen and solider storm the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif, August 18, 2005.

Beyond control

An Israeli border policeman fires teargas canister during a protest by Palestinians against the construction of the controversial Israeli security barrier in the West Bank village of Az-Zawiya June 20, 2004.

Determined and aggressive

A Hamas fighter takes position inside a scanning machine in the customs hall of the Rafah crossing border, between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, after they captured it, June 15, 2007.

Beautiful nature

Heavy fog rolls by early in the morning near the Dubai Marina November 21, 2007

Picture of a disaster

Flames come out of the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport, July 25, 2000. The crash killed at least 110 people. The photo was taken by a Hungarian plane spotter whilst on holiday travelling across Europe.

images: News.com.au

The never ending conflict

An Israeli Border policeman and a Palestinian scream at each other face to face in the Old City of Jerusalem October 13, 2000 as the Palestinian is refused entry to the al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers.

Bush flustered, like the AfPak left him

U.S. President George W. Bush hands back a crying baby that was handed to him from the crowd as he arrived for an outdoor dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Trinwillershage July 13, 2006.

Ominous sun-bathing

Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell (R) "sunbathe" on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen April 25, 2007. The activists are warning that global warming could thaw the Arctic and make the sea warm enough for people to swim and sunbathe in.

The poor always get a raw deal

An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs.

Images: Heraldsun

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